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Summary Of Tom Petty's 'Into The Great Wide Open'
“The sky was the limit” This is a quote taken from Tom Petty’s Into the Great Wide Open.
“Into the Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty tells a story about a boy on his journey rising to fame, by using shifting tones, about a realistic rise glory. Fresh out of high school, a kid named Eddie decided to up and move to Hollywood. On his way he met a girl that had a tattoo, then he got one to. They both lived in Hollywood, they had a lot of things in common to. Their future together was wide open. They both wanted a journey so they started it off together. They moved into an apartment that was affordable for the both of them. Eddie decided to get a job so he could pay for the apartment, so he found a job at a nightclub as a bouncer, which would definitely

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